Karin Byström, Uppsala University LibraryKarin Perols, Södertörn University Library

• Patron Driven Acquisition

• Method offered by e-book aggregators

• Show un-owned e-books in the local catalogue

• Free browsing period

• Automatic loan/rental or purchase

• The library only pays for books that are actually used

• A project funded by the National Library of Sweden

• Uppsala, Malmö and Södertörn university libraries

• February-November 2012

• Main focus: Create a basis of knowledge that can be useful for other libraries

• Collect earlier experiences

• PDA vendor survey (Dawson, EBSCO, ebrary, EBL and MyiLibrary)

• Test period (April-September)

• Create checklist

• Report published online in December

• Malmö: many subjects, ca 13 000 FTE PDA-budget £15 000

• Södertörn: many subjects, ca 8 500 FTEPDA-budget £10 000

Uppsala: two subject libraries; economic library ca 6 000 FTE, PDA budget £2 800 science library, ca 6 000 FTE, PDA budget £6 800

• Result of experiences during the testperiod

• Intended to be used by libraries who are considering starting PDA

• By thinking through the prerequisites and demands libraries will be better prepared

• Better collection

• Better service

• Replacing manual purchasing

• Saving money

Which goals are important to you – where should your focus be?

All these goals probably can’t be achieved at the same time.

• Subject categories• Publishing year• Language• Publishers• Classification• Readership level• Price cap• Keywords (include/exclude)

Which limits does your library want and which profile settings are important?

Choose your vendor in accordance with your requirements

• Browsing

• Loans

• Mediated function

• Number of loans/person/day

• Interface layout

• Multiple accounts

Which PDA model and settings are important?

Choose your vendor in accordance with your requirements

• Readership level

• Type of books

• Publishers

• Updates to collection

Check if the collection from the vendor meets the library’s needs and choose your vendor in accordance with your requirements

• Making the PDA e-books visible - local catalogue, discovery tool, union catalogue?

• MARC records

• Link resolver

• Authentication

Consider where to make your e-books visible Try to avoid separate platform login

• Platform

• DRM (print/copy)

• Downloading

• Mobile interface

• Speech synthesis

• Simultaneous users

When the book has been bought it should work together with the rest of the library’s collection

• Deduplication

• Unique e-ISBN:s

• Managing purchased titles

• Updates

Consider which method for deduplication that is most effective. Not all titles will be deduplicated.

Create a structured schedule for updating the PDA collection

• Support

What are the library’s wishes and demands regarding support, for example, start-up help and response time?

• Statistics

Which statistics is needed? Is it important to be able to separate out PDA use from ordinary?

• Budget

• Price model

• Economy reports

• Invoices

• Deposit

How much of the budget is the library willing to commit to PDA?

What does the vendor’s price model include? Are there any additional charges, e.g. platform fee?

• Workflow

• Competency development

• Involvement of all staff

• Coordination

• Assessment

Analyze how PDA will affect the workflows and identify possible bottlenecks

Analyze the need for coordination

Were the goals achieved?

• More purchases via aggregators, more DRM

• Pros and cons of PDA

• Learn as you go. Be prepared for change!

• A short English version of the report with the full checklist is available at the National Library of Sweden at bit.ly/X9sSSK

• Karin Byströmkarin.bystrom@ub.uu.se

• Karin Perolskarin.perols@sh.se

• Ola Tengstamola.tengstam@mah.se

• Tobias Johanssontobias.johansson@mah.se